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Announcements . Assassins! Be paranoid!. Family Weekend!! April 20-21!! Please sign up yesterday. Secret Church!! March 29 th !! This Friday at 7pm. Food at 6pm!. Bigger Vision!! April 4 th. Guys Night!! April 12 th !!. 1 Peter 3:8-17. Behaviors of a new kind of human.

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  1. Announcements

  2. Assassins! Be paranoid!

  3. Family Weekend!! April 20-21!!Please sign up yesterday.

  4. Secret Church!! March 29th!!This Friday at 7pm. Food at 6pm!

  5. Bigger Vision!!April 4th

  6. Guys Night!! April 12th!!

  7. 1 Peter 3:8-17

  8. Behaviors of a new kind of human

  9. Creates a new type of community

  10. “Bless”

  11. Loving life = Watching your words

  12. Do good. Expect evil.

  13. Verse 15

  14. In YOUR asks YOU in YOU

  15. Why the church is the way it is

  16. Discipleship Evangelism

  17. Everyone has a gospel story

  18. Creation My Identity Fall My Problem Redemption My SolutionNew Creation My Hope

  19. Everyone is trying to find salvation

  20. Secular legalism or Idolatry

  21. 1) How do you define salvation? How will you know you have arrived?2) What must you do to be saved? What rules or rules must you follow?

  22. I’m meant to be happy and valued (Creation)I’m not physically attractive enough because I’m overweight(Fall)I can change through will power, exercise, weight loss(Redemption)I hope is in that when my body is transformed, I will be loved(New Creation)

  23. I want people to value me for who I am (Creation)Butpeople value success, athletic achievement, academics(Fall)I will do whatever it takes to succeed, win, or make myself more valuable(Redemption)My hope is when people will look at me and see how valuable I am(New Creation)

  24. Why Weight Watchers is like “Church”

  25. What story have you set aside as “holy?”

  26. Proverbs 4:23Above all else, guard your heart,for everything you do flows from it.

  27. The GOSPEL is the good news that we don’t have to be slaves to THAT story anymore

  28. The GOSPEL is the good news that that we can lay down the areas of life where we have to trust in ourselves

  29. 4 foundational TRUTHS of GOSPEL1) GOD is great, so we don’t have to be in control2) GOD is glorious, so we don’t have to fear others3) GOD is good, so we don’t have to look elsewhere4) GOD is gracious, so we don’t have to prove ourselves

  30. Courtroom

  31. The assumption is that people will ask if you live this way

  32. Either because they find you interesting or they find you weird

  33. Another assumption is that you WILL suffer for this

  34. Romans 5

  35. Luke 18

  36. ONE: You shall have no other gods before Me.TWO: You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.THREE: You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.FOUR: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.FIVE: Honor your father and your mother.✔SIX: You shall not murder.✔SEVEN: You shall not commit adultery.✔EIGHT: You shall not steal.✔NINE: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.✔TEN: You shall not covet your neighbors house; you shall not covet your neighbors wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor

  37. Luke 19

  38. John 4

  39. Not WHERE but WHAT

  40. POST Christian Culture

  41. This is not a “one time” conversation

  42. Pray.

  43. Listen.

  44. CreationWhat do they assume the world should be like?What kind of person would they like to be?Who are their heroes?What would have to be in place for them to be happy?

  45. FallHow do they describe their struggles?What do they feel is their most pressing problem?What do they feel they lack?Who or what do they think is responsible?

  46. RedemptionWhat do they think will make life better?What provides a sense of escape or release?Who or what will deliver their hopes?What are their functional saviors, heavens, hells?

  47. New CreationWhat are their hopes?What is the long-term project to which they are working?What are the dreams for which they make sacrifices?Have they given up on this happening? (Negative identity)

  48. Looking for idolsMatt. 6:21

  49. Off rampsCol. 4:5

  50. Brokenness, Confusion, Anger

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